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posted December 23, 2008 03:52 PM
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Area P - Special Projects.
We always welcome special projects that are somewhat outside of what we would normally do in production. So when clients ask about can you do this or that, we try and take our slogan of "No-Limits" literaly. Thought I'd share a few:
406 Rodac headers with internal muffler system for a Sand rail project. 723 hp.
Rare 998r - full carbon body work, testerotta engine. 54mm full exhaust to replace his Termi Slip-Ons. Came in with 108.89 hp/65.47 tq. Left with 121.69 hp/71.20 tq. Sounded awesome.
Busa Sidewinder. I believe this client indicated he was in the 260 hp area (or shooting for)after mapping with his local tuner. That's one of our 490 hp/497 tq WRX's in the background.
Clean and simple old school evo chopper drag pipes. Stepped headers with internal baffles out to 2-1/4". Client was all about the looks and sound. Could care less about power. Bless his heart, we were happy to oblige.
9" Ford Gusset Fabrication. Desert Racer Rear End. No more flex here.
Mitsu Evo Exhaust - Titainum, Inconel, Carbon Fiber, Stainless Steel, and Aluminum. Client wanted the "works" type pie sections for bends and all the exotic metals we had. Make it one-off.
MV F4. Client wanted Akro R1 Ti/Carbon mufflers mounted in place of the oem 4 piper. Never heard it run, but probably sounded pretty nasty.
RC51 Slip-Ons. One of the coolest sounding twins.
Subaru Rally light bar & 6 big Hella's. Pretty hard to miss anything at night with those.
CAD designed scratch built race car. Right hand drive, ZX14 engine, Jeffco Box, Paddle Shifters, projected weight of 1100 lbs. Chassis #2 work in process.
Ford Ranger build. Started with a new vehicle. Bumper to Bumper build-up. Fully caged front to back, Front Arms, Four link rear , 9" spool rear end, King Shocks & Bumps, Recaro's, Aluminum Dash, Tire Mounts, Wide Fenders, Fuel Cell, Lights and light bar, the list literly goes on and on and on.... This is basically a street legal desert race truck with 28" of available travel.
Furano Radar Mounts - Land, Sea or Air. We don't care. We like it all !
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posted December 23, 2008 04:32 PM
One of my rear end housings .........
ZERO FLEX and completely hand made....
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posted December 23, 2008 04:58 PM
Thatz a beaut !!! Drag Racing I presume?
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posted December 23, 2008 06:21 PM
Yes Sir...
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posted December 23, 2008 10:50 PM
Hey Kerry!
Good looking stuff you have there, as always. I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you publicly for all your help with the Aaron Lephart CBR600RR FX special project in which I was involved a few years back.
-Tim Chin, X Dot Racing
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posted December 24, 2008 03:07 AM
Nice exhausts Kerry.
Hows that thin wall inconel to weld? Must be tricky. Do you a/c tig it?
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posted December 24, 2008 06:52 AM
what a buncha diverse VERY cool fabbed stuff : bigthumb
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posted December 24, 2008 07:35 AM
 areap ... more members here should take advantage of his talents!!!
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posted December 24, 2008 07:41 AM
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areap ... more members here should take advantage of his talents!!!
a l-o-n-g way from Houston 
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posted December 24, 2008 08:19 AM
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UPS, baby!
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posted December 24, 2008 08:40 AM
quote:
Hey Kerry!
Good looking stuff you have there, as always. I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank you publicly for all your help with the Aaron Lephart CBR600RR FX special project in which I was involved a few years back.
-Tim Chin, X Dot Racing
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posted December 24, 2008 09:36 AM
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UPS, baby!
nope,
no way i'm gonna have stuff custom fabbed over long distance.
That NEVER works out.
gotta be there.
yup
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posted December 24, 2008 09:49 AM
quote:
Nice exhausts Kerry.
Hows that thin wall inconel to weld? Must be tricky. Do you a/c tig it?
This particular Inconel was tricky, as we used much thinner wall material than normal (.025"). We always TIG thin wall projects. On this one, we use a Hydrogen/Argon mix, as well as saturate the area with piped in Hydrogen/Argon from inside. It makes for a very clean weld and minimizes the contamination. As strange as it may sound, the client actually wanted the Titanium coned outlets "colored". So we took a map gas torch to them for some rainbow affect.
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posted December 24, 2008 11:24 AM
WOW great looking pieces. Especially those Headers! And +1 to the rc51 being the coolest sounding twin.
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posted December 24, 2008 12:10 PM
A frind of mine has a sato exhaust on his and It sounds bitchin'. he's been talking about putting a different exhaust on his. I should have him give you guys a shout about just making him some cans.
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posted December 24, 2008 01:30 PM
"wow" to all the talent here on this forum. hats off to all of the brains and talent that each of you possess. And I cant think of any other group of people as great as you guys here are. I am amazed at you all.
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posted December 24, 2008 05:14 PM
Hey Kerry! Merry Christmas to you and the family.
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posted December 24, 2008 11:21 PM
Thanx Doug! Same to you!
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posted December 25, 2008 12:50 PM
beautiful work!!
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posted December 25, 2008 12:56 PM
Edited By: Shane661 on 25 Dec 2008 21:56
I recently had Area P make a custom muffler for my Muzzy exhaust. Kerry was great to deal with, and the work was done very quickly at a reasonable cost. It's nice to know that there are still companies out there who will work with the customer like Area P does.
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posted December 25, 2008 04:58 PM
wow nice thanks for sharing these pics, Merry Christmas to you and yours Kerry!
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posted December 26, 2008 07:02 AM
Nice Kerry! 
Good to see your business going well.
Your still one of the fastest I ever seen on a KZ...
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posted December 26, 2008 07:21 AM
Beautiful work Kerry, happy holidays. Dean
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posted December 27, 2008 09:21 AM
...beautiful metal perfromance artwork, you guys  ....and only a short drive away from where the worm sometimes frequents 
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posted December 27, 2008 12:19 PM
Thanx to everyone. And happy holidays to all. The special projects are really a pleasure for us to do. Even more-so, when it 's taking a client's desire and vision of something, working through it, and making it materialize for them.
So the Worm has turned Nice to hear your still around and kicking. Hope work is going well for you.
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